Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
ERICA JONGEveryone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Home is where your books are.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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